Today, when the domestic animation industry is on track, some large-scale domestic animation movies can be seen released every year.
Take "New God List: Yang Jian" released in August for example. The video can be said to be wonderful in terms of visual experience, reflecting the light-chasing animation as always.
But on the other hand, while these masterpieces dominate the Chinese animation and film market, there are still some rough productions that want to get a share in this increasingly competitive market.
html In late September, a movie called "The New Boy" was released and announced that it will be released on National Day.
Everyone is familiar with the name Red Boy. His personality is just like Nezha, and he is the kind of naughty child who is born to cause trouble.
The difference is that one later practices to become an immortal, while the other becomes a demon king in the world. The people between the two have many similarities, but the experiences are completely different. (Of course, I was finally accepted by Guanyin)
In theory, the story content of these two characters should be different, but I heard that many friends who have watched the trailer said that the story routine of this video is obviously exactly the same as Nezha!
The Demon Child of Red Boys comes to the world?
At the beginning, the trailer briefly summarized the background: During the Nuwa repairing the sky, Xuanming's four legs were chopped, and then he was sealed under the demon-suppressing tower for revenge and evil, and his demons were also trapped in Bagua Furnace . Until thousands of years later, Sun Wuzi made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace and kicked over the Bagua Furnace, and the Samadhi True Fire inside fell into the mortal world and swept the earth.
The picture turned, and a ball of flame was surrounding a baby. The mother, Princess Iron Fan, took out a banana fan and tried to protect the child from the erosion of the fire.
This is the pre-stories of Red Boy in the film, which is very different from the original setting. The latter's Samadhi True Fire was practiced in the Flame Mountain, which lasted for three hundred years. The key is that the Samadhi True Fire did not come from the alchemy furnace; the former changed the setting greatly, shaping Red Boy into a cursed child.
Red Boy was just born and was burning for eight hundred miles on earth. Although Princess Iron Fan tried her best to save the child's life, she could not stop the deeper erosion caused by the Samadhi True Fire on him.
Since then, my mother took him to seek medical treatment and asked for medicine. She was often greeted by others along the way. Red Boy had no friends since he was a child until he met Xiaolongnu. Needless to say, the plot after
needless to say, roughly the thought of the villain behind the scenes surfaced, the disaster fell to the world, the grudges and hatreds of the past are mentioned again, the protagonist experiences his own struggle and growth in times of danger...
After watching this trailer, do you feel very familiar? Yes, the plot arrangement of this story is very similar to the previous movie " Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World ". They are all set by the protagonist's natural bad luck, and my fate is not by the sky.
Although the characters of these two characters are very similar, the adaptation cannot be adapted like this. This will not only make the sense of routines, but the freshness of the story will also be reduced.
The film producer is Ningyang Pictures Company. There is not much information about the company on the Internet. It is obviously an inconspicuous small company. Some people speculate that they may have seen the movie "Demon Child" sells a big box office, so they plan to get a hit and make a mythical movie similar to it, and the protagonist is replaced by Red Boy who is similar to it.
In fact, this problem of similar routines has been more or less common in Chinese comics. Not only this "Red Boy", it can only be said that I have watched too much aesthetic fatigue and people are a little numb.
However, the repetition of content routines is not what everyone cares about the most. What is really unacceptable is the quality of this film. The animated pictures you saw before are actually the almost "top" scenes of this animation.
And in the rest of the shots, we see this.
The long-range view looks like a wax figure, and the characters' movements are also extremely stiff.
If you look closer, you can see that the details above are not processed properly, the jagged marks on the edges are obvious, and the facial modeling is relatively simple. At most, the facial features are placed neatly, and many details are not portrayed.
includes the scene of Red Boy flying in the sky with Xiaolongnu. Netizens can also experience the cheapness visible to the naked eye, and even a little awkward, as well as indescribable joy...
Comparing the light-chasing animation works, the difference is very clear at a glance. In the picture below, Yang Jian's face-to-face photo, the eyebrows, nose, lips lines, skin texture, and even the scratched stubble traces on the chin, it looks very clear from the visual perspective.
More importantly, in the era when Chinese comic works are all in the art field, some works need special effects to make up even if the plot is insufficient. Compared with them, "Red Boy" seems to be very careless. It is hard to imagine that this is the picture quality that will be available in 2022.
What's more, the picture quality has a bit of a sense of Lei Feng's story, but it's hard to describe it anyway...
Some netizens used high emotional intelligence to tease "Red Boy", saying that this is an excellent graduation design made by a major in three-dimensional animation; some played the time-traveling meme and asked how many years it is now. Netizens also tactfully answered that the poster was in 2002, and invisibly complained that the quality of the film had been regressed for 20 years.
Let’s talk about this. In general, the video gives me the feeling that-- small company has no money, so I can only do some decent modeling simply. In order to make as many box offices as possible to save costs, I plan to take advantage of the popularity of the devil’s arrival, and by the way, I have grabbed the peak period of National Day.
is "Red Boy" on the top and "The Devil Boy Comes to the World". If you dare to say that you don't "plagiarize" I would definitely not believe it...
If it were more than ten years ago, it might have worked, but today, I'm afraid few people would buy it. Today's Chinese comics audiences are no longer as easy to fool as they were back then.
Let go of your luck
Anyone who has been following the movie can understand that since the release of " Return of the Great Sage ", the development speed of domestic animation has improved significantly in recent years. The most intuitive point is the rapid progress in picture quality.
Check out these video special effects. Each picture is either exquisite, grand, or gorgeous, or there are all above, making people feel that the funds are burning.
Just a special effect explosion is not enough. The character modeling and scene art in the animation should also be done well enough.
Character modeling I don’t need to question. As long as it is a Chinese comic work adapted from popular IPs, whether it is Douluo Continent, Yuejing, and the mortal cultivation of immortals, the character modeling in it is not only exquisite in shape, but also the facial features and expressions of the characters are also very vivid, and the clothing looks very textured.
Some works with explosive modeling technology can sometimes even make the details fake and real, even making comic fans exclaim, "Isn't this the brother of Xiao Zhan "?
Animated dramas can be so refined, and in the field of films with higher quality requirements, not to mention, the characters should be good-looking, the images should be vivid, and the actions should be natural, which has become the most basic "hard indicators".
As for scene art, Chinese comics are superb in this regard. From the perspective of animation, you will feel that the style of the scene is very real, but if you look at it from a realistic perspective, you will feel that it is very fantasy. This kind of real and false visual experience is the artistic beauty brought by high-quality Chinese comics.In terms of plot, this is a headache at present. To be fair, the current Chinese comics movies are actually better in the plot than before, and the depth of content is no longer limited to the stage of young age as before, and the emotional rendering can also achieve a passing level.
If "The Devil's Child Comes" lacked the pre-scheming of the plot, the 2nd declaration of the climax of the film, "My life is in my hands, not in the sky" would be particularly awkward, and it would not resonate with the audience, otherwise the box office would not be high.
The problem is that most of the audiences nowadays are experienced old men and women, and they have all been involved in domestic, foreign, past and present. If you look at this too much, you will naturally become picky.
always expects the "rise of Chinese comics", but often feels not satisfied with those high-quality Chinese comics movies, and has the feeling of "hate the iron but not the steel".
Everyone's dissatisfaction is mainly related to the subject matter. Everyone knows that everyone is generally unhappy about these mythical movies that use the two masterpieces "Fengshen Bang" and "Journey to the West" as their materials. They all hope to have more other themes.
Take Erlang Shen as an example. Before and after the release of the new God List version of Zhui Guang, there was also an animated movie with him as the protagonist, but the themes were not much different from the original God List. (It has been withdrawn at present)
In two years, three films have been telling stories with the same mythical character. It can be seen that the phenomenon that everyone complains about is serious. As long as there is a slightly poor quality, no one will buy it.
The picture quality is not good, the theme is repeated, and the routine is suspected of riding on the popularity. The shortcomings that should be found in the Chinese comic era "Red Boy" are basically all involved, which will naturally only cause sarcasm.
No matter how you look at it, the box office of this film is probably not much better. As for whether those children will be interested, it can only be said with the actual box office.
I just hope that in the future, whether big or small, those domestic comic companies, it is best to get out of this comfort zone, not to stick to the themes of two old IPs and refuse to come out, and don’t think about learning other people’s masterpiece routines, because some things will become out of date after being used once.
Let’s talk about it again. It’s better to use it to shoot a big movie in Kuipa…
